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YMCA Urbana Baseball and Softball Sign Ups Now Open

2/14/2022

 
Y City Sports Urbana Baseball and Softball
Registration is now open for Urbana Baseball and Softball at the Champaign Family YMCA. The age groups are 8U Coach Pitch, 10U, 12U, 15U for baseball and 8U Coach Pitch, 10U, 13U, 16U for softball.
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For more information and to register, click here or stop in at the Welcome Center.

Indoor Soccer Registration Now Open at YMCA

2/3/2022

 
YMCA Indoor Soccer flyer
Indoor Soccer registration is now open at Champaign Family YMCA. All children aged 3-12 are eligible to sign-up.

Youth Indoor Soccer is an exciting sport combining team play and individual skills. While basic skills of the game are developed through practices and games, every child learns sportsmanship and values necessary to be successful in life. All games are played indoors using the entire gym, including walls.
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All teams will be split and players will be split evenly according to age, unless there are not have enough to fill a league, in which case genders will be combined. Player substitution sheets will be used to keep like-skilled players on the field at the same time regardless of age.

Coed for 3-4 years and 5-6 years will play from March 12th-April 9th. Girls and Boys 7-9 years and 10-12 years will play from February 26th-March 19th. Registration ends on February 18th. Cost for members is $35.00 and non-member cost is $50.00.

Click here to sign-up online, or call the Welcome Center at (937) 653-9622, option 0. For questions, email ymca@ctcn.net.

West Liberty and Kingscreek 2022 Ball Registration

1/3/2022

 
West Liberty and Kingscreek 2022 Ball Registration flyer
Youth baseball and softball registration is now open for West Liberty and Kingscreek's 2022 season!
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Late registration is not accepted so make sure to register by Saturday, February 12th. All major credit cards are accepted as payment.

For online registration, click here. For questions, contact President JJ Martin at (937) 441-0596.

Little Cardinal Cheer Clinic

12/30/2021

 
Triad Local School's cheer clinic flyer
Triad High School cheerleader's Little Cardinal Cheer Clinics will be held on January 10th, 12th, and 13th. Clinic nights are from 3:45pm-5pm. Kids may stay after school until the clinic begins. Please send a drink and snack. Participants will preform on Friday, January 14th at the varsity basketball half time.
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Clinic cost is $45 per student and checks can be made payable to Triad Local Schools. This will include three nights of clinic, t-shirt, pom poms, and free admission to the game. This is for students in Pre-K through 4th grade.

Big Orange Bundle Up

10/14/2021

 
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The West Liberty-Salem Girls Big Orange Cross Country team is collecting socks, hats, and gloves during the week of October 11th-17th to benefit the less fortunate in our community. Drop boxes will be located by the MS/HS cafeteria and in the elementary entry area.
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Donated items should be:
New- in original packaging
All sizes- Men's, Women's, and Children's items needed
Warm- West Central Ohio weather appropriate
Unlimited- Donate as many items as you wish
Tiger Best- Let's fill those bins for those in need!

Graham Effort Salutes Donzil Hall

9/28/2021

 

Fund to assist Graham athletes in secondary education

Donzil Hall squinting toward camera with his hands down to his side
Donzil Hall has spent a career and most of his lifetime in the St. Paris community. An effort to fund scholarships has been launched to salute his commitment to community. John Coffman Photography.
Graham High School yearbook page from 1973 of baseball championship
A page from the Graham High School 1973 yearbook documents the year Donzil Hall coached the Falcons to a state championship in baseball. Submitted photo.
From Urbana Daily Citizen

A committee of Graham alumni has come together to establish a scholarship endowment fund in the name of local legend Donzil Hall.

The endowment committee, led by 1966 Graham graduate Ed Shell and 1967 Graham graduate Larry Baker, consists of Graham alumni Bill Dallas, Rick Campbell, Terry Howell, Bob Ward, Rich Goddard, Dwain Hollingsworth, Jay Lewis and Tim West.

Hall grew up in West Virginia, graduating from Spencer High School in 1950. Before going on to university studies, Hall entered the U.S. Army to serve in the Korean War. He achieved the rank of Sergeant 1st Class and later received several awards for his service, including the Ford Oval of Honor this past July.

After leaving the military, Hall attended Marshall University, where he obtained varsity letters in both baseball and football. Hall particularly excelled in baseball, gaining first team All-Mid-American Conference honors in both 1957 and 1958 and posting impressive statistics, including a career batting average of .336. In 1993, Hall’s remarkable career earned him a spot in the Marshall Athletic Hall of Fame.
After graduating from Marshall in 1958, Hall moved to Ohio and began working at Rosewood High School. When the area schools consolidated into Graham Local Schools circa 1960, Hall continued serving for 33 years as a teacher, athletic director and coach of both baseball and football. In 1973, Hall led Graham’s baseball team to a state championship.

He retired from teaching in 1991.

“He is a very loyal and dedicated guy to helping kids as well as being an educator,” Baker said.

Despite his athletic success, Hall named teaching as his favorite part of his career at Graham. Though he never planned to remain in the area so long, the character of the community appealed to him.

“The people here are hard-working, honest people, and they appreciated things that you did for them,” Hall said. “The kids at Graham are just great.”

Baker remembers being in third grade when Hall began teaching at Rosewood in 1958. Baker played basketball, football and baseball at Graham. Baker also played baseball for the Western Ohio League, and Hall played alongside him as a teammate.
Tim West, 1974 Graham graduate, pitched for Hall’s state title-winning team and also has been greatly impacted by Hall.

“As a coach, Donzil instilled discipline and hard work ethic within our players,” West said. “He taught us how important the little things are to have success, and in our state run, we won because we did the little things.”

According to West, Hall impacted his players’ lives on and off the field.

“I believe Donzil was a big part in the direction many of us have taken in our lives,” West said.

West, owner of Superior Painting and Restoration in Urbana for 38 years, attributes much of his success to Hall, who gave him his first painting jobs during summers to earn money for college. The pair also frequently play golf together.

Throughout the years, Hall has been honored in various ways for his impact on the Graham community. In 1991, Hall was immortalized in the Miami Valley Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame. Additionally, the high school’s new baseball field was dubbed Donzil Hall Field.

In appreciation for all that Hall has given to Graham students, the Donzil Hall Scholarship Endowment Committee felt it was only fitting that a fund be instituted in Hall’s name that would provide aid for secondary education to Graham athletes.

Of his reaction to hearing about the scholarship, Hall said, “I was very surprised, but I really wasn’t surprised. The people who talked to me about it were good students at the high school and good athletes, too. They’ll make it work, I’m sure, if they set their mind to it.”

Baker and Shell, sharing a mutual respect for Hall, came up with the idea for the new scholarship. Baker, who worked as a financial estate planner for 37 years in Springfield, jumped at Shell’s suggestion, and the pair quickly put a plan in motion.

“I knew who else was well-connected and respectful of Donzil, so I asked those people to join me and Ed Shell in doing this,” Baker said.

Shell and Baker formed three committees and have held two meetings thus far.

The committee has partnered with the Springfield Foundation to handle the administrative details of the donations. Though still in the early stages of fundraising, the fund has already accumulated about $23,000 and is projected to continue growing into six figures in future years. Baker expects the scholarship to be able to continue supporting students “forever.”

On October 1, they intend to launch their support campaign with a solicitation letter, detailing the goals of the fund and how contributors can donate.

Graham offers another similar fund called the Graham Community Alumni Association Scholarship, which is filtered through the Troy Foundation and is available to all students.

However, only athletes will be eligible for the Hall scholarship, and the committee will consider components such as athletic performance, character, community service and grades. The only criteria is that the student must use the money for secondary education — a 4-year university, a trade school or any skilled training.

“We don’t want to get any more specific than (secondary education), because in today’s day and age, we’re open to trade skills as well as academic education,” Baker said. Hall himself expressed his support of the committee’s stance on this issue.

Students can apply for this award between November and February, and upon receipt of their applications, a Donor’s Selection Committee made up of Hall, Dwain Hollingsworth, Lewis, Shell and Baker will meet to choose the recipient.

Baker hopes that in the first year, the committee will be able to choose 2 or 3 students to award a one-time amount of between $1,000-$2,000.

Baker vocalized the committee’s hopes that the scholarship will make a positive impact on students’ lives for years to come.

“The committee recognizes how much tougher it’s getting to afford secondary education,” Baker said. “Couple that with everyone’s admiration for Donzil, his service and his dedication to Graham High School, and those two make an excellent marriage to help kids onward and upward.”

Hall himself looks forward to the assistance the fund will provide for students and wishes to thank the community for their support.

“I’m sure that the students that get it will be appreciative of it. I’m just glad to see it happen,” He said. “We’re just happy we’re a part of the community.”
“He’s a very humble, very quiet, confident competitor,” Baker said of Hall. “His life-long, career-long experience was at Graham High School.”
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CO-ED Volleyball League

9/28/2021

 
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Adult Recreational Volleyball at Champaign Family YMCA is open for registration beginning Friday, October 1st! Build your own team, ask your company to sponsor you, or stop in and sign up as an individual! Either way, you'll have a great time!

Don't wait, league will most likely be limited to 12!
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Registration deadline is Nov. 14th (Sunday before Thanksgiving) to ensure the Y can get jerseys for everyone on time for opening games on Sunday, Nov.28

Adult and Teen Volleyball Open Gym- Thursdays from 7:30 - 9:00 PM. FREE to Members only.

Click here to register!

Champaign Family Flying Fish Youth Masters Swimming

9/10/2021

 
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Champaign Family YMCA's Flying Fish Youth Masters Swimming for winter 2021-2022 is now open for registration through September 30th!

Team Mini-Season
October 4th- December 16th
Includes 2 practices a week
3-4 dual meets and custom swim cap
$115 for members, $150 for non-members

Stroke Clinics
January 10th- March 4th
2-week sessions concentrating on each stroke
$20 each for members, $30 each for non-members
Registration for all four sessions for the cost of three!

For more information, contact:
Team Administrator, Michaela Wasson at mwasson@champymca.org,
Coach Jenn Swartzentruber at iswartzentruber421@gmail.com,
or Coach Chelsea Richardson at chelsear2083@gmail.com.

4th-6th Grade Youth Volleyball League

9/10/2021

 
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Come play with your classmates in the Champaign Family YMCA's school-based volleyball rec league for grades 4-6!

All schools and homeschool welcome! Players from Urbana, Graham, West Liberty, Triad, Mechanicsburg, and Northwestern have participated!

Register until September 22nd at the Y Welcome Center, Online, or by calling (937)653-9622 option 0.

Practices will begin October 3rd (Wednesday & Sunday evening). Matches begin on Saturday, October 9th-November 13th with possible 6th grade "all-star" on November 20th.

Members- $40, Non-Members $55

Swim Lesson Sessions at the YMCA

9/10/2021

 
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Now registering for swim lesson sessions at Champaign Family YMCA!

Spots will be limited to provide the safest atmosphere for your children, so register quickly.

Monday/Wednesday or Tuesday/Thursday : $24 for members, $48 for non-members.

Saturday mornings: $12 for members, $24 for non-members.

For more information on group or private lessons, contact Michaela Wasson at ymcaaquatics@ctcn.net.
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